Research Guide to Diabetes Health Statistics

1. Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to assist faculty, students, and staff of the University of Chicago find diabetes statistics. This guide is not meant to be exhaustive but to highlight key resources for locating information on this topic.

2. Sources of Information

2.1 Book Resources

For electronic access to books, try searching the MD Consult database. You can search within an individual textbook, or run a search across >35 textbooks simultaneously for your topic.

Use the Library catalog to locate relevant print and electronic books in the University Library.

Try to identify general texts on your topic and you should be able to find the data you need. Excellent data is buried within textbooks; just because a textbook has not been labeled in the catalog as a statistical resource does not mean that important numerical data is not included within the work. You will need to browse textbook and textbook chapters for tables and graphs on your topic in order to retrieve desired information.

Subject headings in the catalog often do not include terms like statistics unless the book only reports summary data, like in a survey. Instead, browse or search the catalog using broad and narrow subject terms related to diabetes. Catalog tip: use the "*" wildcard to search for variations of your root term. For example child* to search for child or children or children's. You can then combine these subject terms with the type of data you are interested in. For example diabetes and child.

Diabetes
Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
Diabetes in children
Diabetes in pregnancy
Diabetes -- Complications

2.2 Journals

MEDLINE
There are two versions of the the Medline database available.
Medline on OVID and PubMed.

MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and abstracts from more than 4,000 biomedical journals. The file contains over 11 million citations dating back to 1966.

The Print version of this database is known as Index Medicus. Print volumes from 1879-present are available in the Crerar Library Reference Collection at Z6660.I4.

Documentation on how to search Medline on the OVID.

Documentation on how to search PubMed.

CINAHL
Covers nearly nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health journals, publications of the American Nursing Association, and the National League for Nursing. This is the electronic version of the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health. Abstract coverage from January 1986 to the present. Indexing coverage from 1982 to the present.

Print volumes from 1956-1998 are available in the Crerar Library Reference Collection at Z6675.N7C931.

Documentation on how to search CINAHL is available from OVID.

2.3 Internet Resources

Sites were selected based upon the authority and/or reputation of the issuing body in addition to the quality and organization of the website. Federal organizations, medical associations, and private organizations are included.

2.4 Other data sources

Statistical Universe

Major tool for statistical research. Covers data from U.S. federal and state governments; university research centers, private associations and organizations, and independent research groups; and international and intergovernmental organizations. Records include abstracts, with full text of selected U.S. federal and state publications available from as early as 1995.

Statistical Universe is the online equivalent of the following resources available in print. You will need to consult the print version in order to conduct historical research.